Labour Party UCR Board Renewal Independent Party[2]
Headquarters
130 Matheu Street Buenos Aires
Student wing
Peronist University Youth
Youth wing
Peronist Youth
Membership (2022)
3,204,329[3]
Ideology
Peronism[4][5][6] Factions: Kirchnerism[7][8][9] Federal Peronism[10][11]
Political position
Big tent[12][13][14][A] Kirchnerists: Centre-left[15] to left-wing[16] Federals: Centre-right[17]
National affiliation
Union for the Homeland[18]
Continental affiliation
Christian Democrat Organization of America[19] São Paulo Forum COPPPAL[20]
Colors
Light blue White
Anthem
"Peronist March"
Seats in the Senate
36 / 72
Seats in the Chamber of Deputies
91 / 257
Governors
11 / 24
Election symbol
Flag
Website
www.pj.org.ar
Politics of Argentina
Political parties
Elections
^A: The party has sometimes been described as syncretic or a "third way" party,[21][22] but mostly as centre-left,[14] left-wing,[23] and leftist.[24] This diversity in classifying the Justicialist Party is caused by Peronism historically stretching from far-left to far-right views.[25] The party is classified as centre-left or left-wing because of the dominating position of Kirchnerism; Steven Levitsky notes that under Kirchnerism, the party "shifted programmatically to the left".[26] Lastly, Juan Perón, the founder of the Peronist movement, is considered to have been ideologically left-wing.[27][28]
The Justicialist Party (Spanish: Partido Justicialista, IPA:[paɾˈtiðoxustisjaˈlista]; abbr. PJ) is a major political party in Argentina, and the largest branch within Peronism.[29]
Former president Alberto Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party (and has, since 2021, served as its chairman),[1] as do (or did) former presidents Juan Perón, Héctor Cámpora, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Isabel Perón, Carlos Menem, Ramón Puerta, Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Eduardo Camaño, Eduardo Duhalde, Néstor Kirchner, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Justicialists have been the largest party in Congress almost consistently since 1987.
Founded by Juan Perón, it was previously called the Peronist Party after its founder. It is overall the largest party in Congress; however, this does not reflect the divisions within the party over the role of Kirchnerism, the main, left-wing populist faction of the party, which is opposed by the dissident Peronists (also known as Federal Peronism or Menemism), the conservative faction of the party.
^ ab"Alberto Fernández asume la presidencia del Consejo del Partido Justicialista". Télam (in Spanish). 22 March 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
^"Se crea la Unión Cívica Radical Junta Renovadora UCR-JR". Laopinionpopular.com.ar. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
^"Cuántos afiliados a un partido político hay en el país y qué agrupaciones crecieron más en el último año". 2 April 2023.
^Claeys, Gregory (2013). CQ Press (ed.). Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought (set). CQ Press. p. 617. ISBN 9781506317588.
^Ameringer, Charles D. (1992). Greenwood (ed.). Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 43. ISBN 9780313274183.
^"The persistence of Peronism". The Economist. 15 October 2015.
^Dube, Ryan (19 August 2019). "Argentina's Fernández Moves from Little-Known Politician to Next Likely President". Wall Street Journal.
^Jalalzai, Farida (2015). Routledge (ed.). Women Presidents of Latin America: Beyond Family Ties?. Routledge. p. 27. ISBN 9781317668350.
^Agustín, Óscar G.; Briziarelli, Marco (2017). Springer (ed.). Podemos and the New Political Cycle: Left-Wing Populism and Anti-Establishment Politics. Springer. p. 195. ISBN 9783319634326.
^Gallego-Díaz, Soledad (19 October 2011). "El peronista Duhalde intenta conservar una parcela de poder en Buenos Aires". El País.
^Silva, Eduardo; Rossi, Federico (2018). University of Pittsburgh Press (ed.). Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822983101.
^swissinfo.ch, S. W. I. (15 March 2021). "Alberto Fernández es proclamado nuevo presidente del Partido Justicialista". SWI swissinfo.ch (in European Spanish). Retrieved 14 April 2024.
^Wallihan, Jake (2023). "The Strength of Democracy in Argentina and Where it Stands Today". The Journal of Foreign Affairs at Carolina. 8 (2). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 29. doi:10.17615/kj66-1m54. With the election and successful completion in office of Macri's administration, there has been a re-establishment of a clear left-right, where the PJ fell on the left side of the political spectrum and PRO fell on the right (a facet that was somewhat evident in the 1980s but not present in the 1990s).
^ abCupples, Julie (2021). Development and Decolonization in Latin America. Routledge. p. 104. ISBN 9780367627089. The centre-left Justicialist Party returned to power in 2019, and Cristina Fernández became vice-president.
^"Página/12 :: El país :: Kirchner con Capitanich". www.pagina12.com.ar.
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"Argentina shifts to the right after Mauricio Macri wins presidential runoff". The Guardian. 23 November 2015.
"Argentine President Stumps for Congressional Candidates". The Wall Street Journal. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2020. Speaking to thousands of supporters in a packed soccer stadium, Mrs. Kirchner stumped for the candidates who will represent her left-wing coalition, the FPV, in October's vote.
"Argentinian president Macri vows 'many reforms' after strong election result". The Guardian. 24 October 2017.
"Analysis: Latin America's new left axis". BBC Online. 18 April 2006. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
^ABDO, GERARDO DAVID OMAR (13 November 2014). "Peronismo Federal: ambicion y despretigio hechos fuerza politica". Monografias.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2023.
^"Fernández acordó con Sergio Massa". Télam - Agencia Nacional de Noticias. 12 June 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
^"Partidos | ODCA.cl".
^"Países y Partidos Miembros de la COPPPAL – Copppal". Archived from the original on 21 August 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^Galvan, D.; Sil, R. (2007). Springer (ed.). Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space: Syncretic Responses to Challenges of Political and Economic Transformation. Springer. p. 107. ISBN 9780230603066.
^Weitz-Shapiro, Rebecca (2014). Cambridge University Press (ed.). Curbing Clientelism in Argentina. Cambridge University Press. p. 19. ISBN 9781107073623.
^Del Real, Deisy (2019). Documenting the Undocumented: the Construction of Legal Residency as a Substantive Right Under the Mercosur Residency Agreements. Los Angeles: University of California. pp. 106–107. These included Argentina's President Nestor Kirchner (2003-2007) of the left-wing Justicialist Party; Bolivia's President Evo Morales (2006–present) of the left-wing Movement for Socialism-Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples; Uruguay's President Tabaré Vázquez (2005-2010) of the left-wing Socialist Party; and Brazil's Presidents Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016) of the left-wing Workers' Party.
^Singer, Matthew M. (2014). "The 2013 congressional elections in Argentina". Electoral Studies. 35 (1). Elsevier Ltd.: 371. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014.01.003. ISSN 0261-3794. This tendency started in the 1980s as the economic collapse decimated the unions that had formed the base of the leftist Justicialist Party (PJ, although it is more commonly referenced as the Peronist Party).
^Levitsky, Steven; Roberts, Kenneth M. (2011). The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-4214-0110-2.
^Levitsky, Steven; Roberts, Kenneth M. (2011). The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4214-0110-2.
^Ellner, Steve (2020). Latin America's Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 7. ISBN 9781538125649. These writers also argue that twenty-first-century Latin American leftist governments, like Peronism in the 1940s, were doomed to failure since the success of their defiance of powerful actors was contingent on the indefinite duration of favorable international markets for their nations' exports.
^Wylde, Christopher (2017). Emerging Markets and the State: Developmentalism in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 138–139. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-55655-4. ISBN 978-1-137-55654-7. Perón and Peronismo (Peronism) therefore represented a form of leftist–populist nationalism, rooted in an urban working-class movement that was allied to elements of the domestic bourgeoisie as well as the military.
^"Partido Justicialista". Pj.org.ar. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
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